Dart

Important Concepts

1. Everything that is placed in a variable is an object, and every object is an instance of a class.

2. Dart is strongly typed, and has type inference.

Dependency management

Dependencies are managed by pub

Dart uses packages to manage shared software such as libraries and tools.

Pub creates a .packages file that maps each package name that app depends on to corresponding package in system cache.

Handling dependencies

1. Create a pubspec (a file named pubspec.yaml that lists package dependencies and includes other metadata, such as a name for your package).
2. Use pub to get your package’s dependencies.
3. If your Dart code depends on a library in the package, import the library.Dependencies are managed by pub. o

About Modules

io module

Most methods in the IO module run asynchronously.

async module

Key classes: Future, Stream

Future represents computation that is yet available, Future returns the value opf computation when it completes sometime in the future. Futures are often used for potentially lengthy computations.

Stream provides an asynchronous sequence of data.

Stream.listen: registers callback function that runs each time more data is available.